Radical left bibliography

Chronological bibliography on Western European radical left parties

Author: Paolo Chiocchetti

Version: provisional

Last update: 11.12.2017

This bibliography aims at providing a working tool to scholars of the radical left parties in Western Europe. Radical left parties are defined as to include all kind of partisan organisations beyond the social-democratic mainstream, including communist, left-socialist, far left, Eurocommunist, and modern radical left currents.

It is limited to works covering developments of any period from 1945 to present in at least three countries (or, before 1989, at least Italy and France). It includes monographs, collected books, special issues, articles in print scientific journals, and some grey literature. Excluded are: works exclusively focused on Central and Eastern European countries, pre-1945 developments, and non-party actors (e.g. intellectuals or civil society organisations); single-country analyses; two-country comparisons; theses; and most grey literature.

This provisional version will be enriched in the future with missing items, hyperlinks to the primary location of the works, references to reviews of the books, and sections on specific countries. Suggestions can be addressed to mail@paolochiocchetti.it.

Thanks to Nico Biver and Giorgos Charalambous for contributing.

GENERAL (1945–present)

Almond, Gabriel A. (1947). “The resistance and the political parties of Western Europe”, Political Science Quarterly 62(1): 27–61.

Gomez, Raul, Laura Morales and Luis Ramiro (2015). “Varieties of radicalism: examining the diversity of radical left parties and voters in Western Europe”, West European Politics 39(2): 351–379, doi:1080/01402382.2015.1064245.

March, Luke and Charlotte Rommerskirchen (2015). “Out of left field? Explaining the variable electoral success of European radical left parties”, Party Politics 21(1): 40–53, doi:1177/1354068812462929.

Charalambous, Giorgos and Iasonas Lamprianou (2016). “Societal responses to the post-2008 economic crisis among South European and Irish radical left parties: continuity or change and why?”, Government and Opposition 51(2): 261–293, doi:1017/gov.2014.35.

Ramiro, Luis (2016). “Support for radical left parties in Western Europe: social background, ideology and political orientations”, European Political Science Review 8(1): 1–23, doi:1017/S1755773914000368.

Beaudonnet, Laurie and Raul Gomez (2017). “Red Europe versus no Europe? The impact of attitudes toward the EU and the economic crisis on radical-left voting”, West European Politics 40(2): 316-335, doi:10.1080/01402382.2016.1222806.

Charalambous, Giorgos and Iasonas Lamprianou (2017). “The (non) particularities of West European radical left party supporters: comparing left party families”, European Political Science Review 9(3):375-400. doi:10.1017/S1755773915000429.

Chiocchetti, Paolo (2017). The radical left party family in Western Europe, 1989–2015. Abingdon: Routledge. [worldcat / publisher]

Fagerholm, Andreas (2017). “What is left for the radical left? A comparative examination of the policies of radical left parties in Western Europe before and after 1989”, Journal of Contemporary European Studies 25(1): 16-40, doi:10.1080/14782804.2016.1148592.

Holmes, Michael (2017). “Contesting integration. The radical left and Euroscepticism”. In: John FitzGibbon, Benjamin Leruth and Nick Startin (eds.) Euroscepticism as a transnational and pan-European phenomenon: the emergence of a new sphere of opposition. Abingdon: Routledge.